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CSW Side Event: “A Woman’s Right to Believe”

March 14, 2016

The United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief will host a side event at the upcoming 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which will take place at UN headquarters in New York City this March 14-24, 2016.

This side event will focus on the importance and scope of the right of women to change, dissent from, or leave their religion, and the role of the rights to freedom of religion or belief in empowering women, as well as other related issues.

Speakers will include:

Ani Zonneveld, founder and president of Muslims for Progressive Values.